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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Sunday, August 22, 2010

As you may recall, Threadless.com hosts an annual contest called Threadcakes where bakers replicate one of Threadless' shirt designs in cake form. Threadless shirts are super fun, and the participating decorators are always amazingly creative. The contest just wrapped this week, and since Jen is one of the judges again this year, I thought I'd share some of *my* favorite submissions.

(I'll post a photo of the shirt design first, followed by the cake entry.)

These are my favourites too, especially seeing as though "A Vehicle Built for Dreams" is mine.:) Thanks so much for the kind words!I'm super excited to see who wins this year, there are so many amazing designs to choose from!

There are no words to describe how amazing those were! I have a question though, and this is entirely my ignorance of the whole cake decorating world. The last cake (which is beautiful!) has a notation that it took a week to make. How do they keep the cake from going stale? I mean, if a cake like that is made for an event, it's a week old when it gets there. How do they keep the cake fresh?

I have only two things to say to this set. Artistic flare! The skill in the making of those cakes is rather clever. I can't understand how some people go so badly when there is full on skill out there. Especially with some of the more difficult cakes where detail is specific. Go the artists.

Gorgeous. That one cake with the robot reminded me of a Thomas Kincade painting. Without the robot of course lol. Gorgeous just takes my breath away. I wish I had even a tiny amount of the talent these decorators have.

Wow. Absolutely incredible. The diver helmet cake is...just...whoa. And 'Birdsong' is...guh. The creators of the shirts are so inventive, and those who reproduce the designs in cake are just over the top!

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